BREWSTER v. BARNES

Nos. 83-1582(L), 83-1830.

788 F.2d 985 (1986)

Joyce H. BREWSTER, Appellee, v. George F. BARNES; W.H. Forst and Charles K. Trible, Appellants, and G. Wayne Pike; Buford E. Shockley, former Sheriff of Wythe County; Wythe County, Virginia; Wythe County Board of Supervisors; George F. James; James E. Hagee; Ralph L. Blair; Garland Groseclose; Willard M. Smith; John King, Jr.; C.D. Moore, Jr.; J. Addison Jones; James E. Dunkley and Compensation Board, Defendants. Joyce H. BREWSTER, Appellant, v. G. Wayne PIKE; Buford E. Shockley, former Sheriff of Wythe County; Wythe County, Virginia; Wythe County Board of Supervisors; George F. James; James E. Hagee; Ralph L. Blair; Garland Groseclose; Willard M. Smith; John King, Jr.; C.D. Moore, Jr.; J. Addison Jones; James E. Dunkley; Compensation Bd. of Virginia; George F. Barnes; W.H. Forst and Charles K. Trible, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 10, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harriet D. Dorsey (Dorsey & Long, Blacksburg, on brief) for appellant/cross-appellee.

Kenneth W. Thorson, Sr. Asst. Atty. Gen., Richmond, Va., James P. Jones (Penn, Stuart, Eskridge & Jones, Abingdon; William G. Broaddus, Atty. Gen., Barbara M. Rose, Asst. Atty. Gen., Gerald L. Baliles, Atty. Gen., Richmond, Va., on brief) for appellees.

Before SPROUSE and CHAPMAN, Circuit Judges, and BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge.


SPROUSE, Circuit Judge:

Defendants George F. Barnes, W.H. Forst, and Charles K. Trible, members of the Compensation Board of the Commonwealth of Virginia, appeal from the district court's judgment awarding damages and attorneys' fees to Joyce H. Brewster for negligent deprivation of constitutionally secured property rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1982). Brewster cross-appeals the district court's judgment denying her claims of sex discrimination by all the defendants...

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